A Great if not a Perfect Gift

June 15, 2014 is Father’s Day in Canada and the USA. This would have been a perfect gift for the occasion as long as your father is not allergic to cats.

Kitten in a Bag

Amazon Prime Music

Amazon launches Prime Music:

Your music collection just got a lot bigger.
Unlimited, ad-free streaming of over a million songs and hundreds of playlists.
And the best part is …it’s FREE with Amazon Prime.

Amazon Prime Music

On Thursday, June 11, 2014 Amazon updated its Amazon Cloud Player app and renamed it to Amazon Music.

Amazon-Cloud-Player-to-Amazon-Music

One million songs seems to be anemic compared to Spotify’s claim on 20 millions of global songs count.

Apple Seven-for-One Stock Split

Apple-7-for-one-Stock-Split

June 9, 2014 is the first trading day for Apple stock (AAPL) following the Seven-for-One split.

AAPL closed at $645.57 ($92.22 on post-split adjustment) on Friday, June 6, 2014. After the Seven-for-One split, AAPL closes at $93.70 on Monday, June 9, 2014.

Surprisingly, Forbes, a huge business/financial publications does not really understand how stock split works.

According to Forbes, AAPL plummeted by $551.87. Not sure if Forbes is either incompetent or lying.

Forbes is either incompetent or lying